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Lab Environment

The lab environment includes 6 VMs.

  1. Bastion VM - A RHEL VM named bastion-gym-lan that will be used as the bastion host for the lab network. This Bastion host has access to all lab VM's and will be your primary workstation for these labs.
  2. Instana VMs - 3 Ubuntu VMs that are running a multi-node self-hosted Instana server on K3s.
  3. MQACE - An Ubuntu VM that contains the pre-installed IBM ACE and MQ middleware.
  4. Demo Applications Cluster - An Ubuntu VM running K3s, it has the Instana Agent and Quote of the Day demo application running. It will be used to install the Robot Shop demo application in this lab.

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Prerequisites​

Create an IBM ID

You will need an IBM ID to request and access your lab environment in IBM TechZone. You can create an IBM ID here.

Instana license keys

Required when requesting the lab environment:

  • Agent / Download Key
  • Sales Key

IBMers and IBM Business Partners can get license keys from the Partner Access to Instana presentation.
Note: Keys are rotated every 6 months so please check at time of requesting lab.

Requesting a Lab Environment​

Below is a live chart showing Tech Zone capacity in each available region. When requesting your environment it would be wise to select the region that has the most capacity available.

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Follow these instructions for step by step guidance on requesting and accessing a lab environment in IBM Tech Zone.

Request Tech Zone environment: